"I disagree completely with that behaviour," the Frenchman said at the time. "I don't know really what happened, I will need to have a chat with him about that.

"There are two things: first of all when you are a football player you are an example and as well you don't do what damages your health.

"The fact [is] that you can damage your health at home, you can smoke at home and you can drink at home, and nobody sees it, but when you go out socially you as well damage your reputation as an example."

"If that wasn’t bad enough, he then gave a post-match interview in which he said how hard it had been to motivate himself for the final game of England’s World Cup because he hadn’t started against either Italy or Uruguay and our fate had already been decided."